Photos: Fire Consumes Brooklyn Recycling Plant

A fire at a recycling plant on the corner of Humboldt st and Russell Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.Peter J. Smith for The Wall Street Journal

A three-alarm fire broke out Tuesday night at a commercial recycling plant in Brooklyn, authorities said.

The fire at Rapid Recycling Paper Corp. on Humboldt Street in Greenpoint was reported around 7:30 p.m. A 911 caller and another witness told police that they saw an electrical panel in the one-story building spark and catch on fire, which they tried to put out with a fire extinguisher. But the blaze spread after it extended to paper, plastic and other combustible material that were present.

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